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Truculently is the adverb: doing something in an aggressive, argumentative, defiant way. It goes with verbs of speaking and behaving, because truculence lives in how you deliver something — "he answered truculently", "she stared truculently at the floor", "'Make me,' he said truculently." Notice how often it appears in stories right after a piece of dialogue. That is its natural home. A writer uses it to tell you the exact temperature of a line that, written on the page, could have been read several ways: the words say one thing, and *truculently* tells you they were like a challenge. Formal and literary; almost nobody says it out loud in conversation. Position is flexible — after the verb ("he replied truculently") or before it ("he truculently refused") — but after the verb is more common and reads more naturally.
好鬥地、蠻橫地、帶著挑釁地(多用於描述說話或反應的方式)
組成truculent + -ly, the ordinary English way of turning a describing word into a word about *how* something is done: quiet → quietly, sudden → suddenly, truculent → truculently.
同家族的字
- truculentThe adjective it is built from; -ly makes it describe an action instead of a person.
- truculenceSame adjective, different ending — the noun naming the quality itself.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
truculentlyadv
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With aggression; savagely.
- "It's no use your staying here, because I'm not going to copper anybody," said the woman truculently. "My lodgers are respectable people; they keep themselves to themselves, and I keep myself to myself.[…]"
- After working hard for a couple of weeks he suddenly downed tools and truculently demanded thirty shillings.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。